This page relates “enumeration of manvantaras” as found in the Shiva-purana, which, in Hinduism, represents one of the eighteen Mahapuranas. This work eulogizes Lord Shiva as the supreme deity, besides topics such as cosmology and philosophy. It is written in Sanskrit and claims to be a redaction of an original text consisting of 100,000 metrical verses.

18. O sage, the second Manvantara has been mentioned by me. I shall explain the third one. Know it factually.

19-20. Vasiṣṭha’s seven sons famous as Vāsiṣṭhas and Hiraṇyagarbha’s sons of great splendour known as Ūrjas are mentioned as the sages. Uttama the Manu had ten sons, O great sage.

21-22. They were Iṣa, Ūrjita, Ūrja, Madhu, MādhavaŚuci, Śukravaha, Nabhasa, Nabha and Ṛṣabha. The gods were Satyavedaśruta and others. O sage, the Indra then was Satyajit. He was the ruler of the three worlds.

23. The great third Manvantara has been explained. O sage, listen. I shall mention the fourth Manvantara.

25-26. The Indra there was Triśikha. O sage, listen to the names of Manu’s sons. The ten sons of great rites of the Manu Tāmasa were Dyutipota, Sautapasya, Tapaḥśūla, Tāpana, Taporati, Akalmāsa, Dhanvin, Khaḍgin, Mahat and Ṛṣi.

27. The fourth Manvantara of Tāmasa Manu has been mentioned to you. O dear, now listen to the great fifth Manvantara.

38-39. O Śaunaka, the future ten sons of Sāvarṇi the Manu will be Viṣāṅga, Avanīvat, Sumanta, Dhṛtimat, Vasu, Sūri, Sura, Viṣṇu, Rājā and Sumati. Thus the eighth Manvantara has been mentioned. Now listen to the ninth Manvantara.

40-42. I shall mention Dakṣasāvarṇi Manu at the outset. Listen. Medhātithi, Paulastya, Vasu, Kaśyapa, Jyotiṣmat, Bhārgava, Dhṛtimat, Aṅgiras, Savana son of Vasiṣṭha, Havya son of Atri, and Pulaha—these seven are the sages in the Rauhita Manvantara. O great sage, the groups of gods are three.

45-47. In the tenth Manvantara of the second Sāvarṇi the following are the sages, viz. Haviṣmat, Pulaha, Prakṛti, Bhārgava, Āya, Mukti, Ātreya and the imperishable Vasiṣṭha along with the seven great sages viz, Paulastya, Prayati, Bhāmāra, Kaśyapa, Aṅgirā, Anenasa, and Satya. Those known as Dviṣimant are the groups of gods.

55-57. Now know the seven sages of the fourth Sāvarṇi from me—Dyuti son of Vasiṣṭha, Ātreya of good penance, Aṅgiras an embodied form of penance, Kaśyapa the ascetic. Paulastya the sage, Pulaha interested in penance and Bhārgava the storehouse of penance. The groups of gods are known as five and they are the mental sons of Brahmā.

58-60. The Indra then is Ṛtadhāman. He is the happy ruler of the three worlds. In the future twelfth Manvantara, O, sage, the seven great sages are Dhṛtimat, Aṅgiras, Havyavat Paulastya, Tattvadarśin Paulaha, Nirutsava Bhārgava, Niṣprapañca Ātreya, Nirdeha, Kaśyapa and Sutapa the descendant of Vasiṣṭha.

63-65. In the fourteenth Manvantara of Satya Manu the seven sages are Āgnīdhra Kāśyapa, Māgadha, Paulastya Atibāhya Bhārgava, Śuci Aṅgirasa, Yukta Ātreya, Ajita grandson of Vasiṣṭha, and Pulaha. They are the final seven sages. The gods are the holy Cākṣuṣas. Śuci will become Indra.

66. After getting up early in the morning the repetition of the names of these sages of the past and future increases the happiness of men.

69. The earlier Kalpa is in the authority of Bhauma, Thus I have explained the Manus past and future.

70-71. These were mentioned to Vyāsa by Sanatkumāra of great splendour. When the thousand Yugas are complete they, of good penance, return to Brahmaloka when their task of protecting the people is over. Each Manvantara consists of seventy-one Yugas with some period left over.

72. These fourteen Manus are glorified. In each Manvantara there is re-creation after annihilation.

73. It is difficult to explain Manvantara even in hundreds of years. The Kalpa that follows a hundred thousand Kalpas is named Niśśeṣa.

74-75. There all the living beings are burnt by the sun’s rays. O sage, all of them enter Viṣṇu at the end of Kalpas along with the Ādityas. Viṣṇu then creates all living beings. This happens again and again.

76-77. Lord Rudra annihilates them I shall explain it at the end of Vaivasvata Kalpa. Thus I have mentioned all about the Manvantaras to you. It is a holy narrative conclusive to wealth and increase of the family.